An Affair with Hollywood

By Roger Niez

An Affair with Hollywood are stories of a bodyguard and limo driver working during the height of male chauvinism in Hollywood during the historic 1980s. His personal relationships with clients, and his interactions with wishful young actresses, presented him with a medium into the party scene...and what was truly going on with this sexually charged era. Throughout these stories, he dives headfirst into exploring the Hollywood scene and the mindsets involved during the peak of the casting couch, favor making, and drug usage.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9781662434006

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An Affair with Hollywood

Roger Niez

Copyright © 2022 Roger Niez and Ben Mona

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2022

ISBN 978-1-6624-3399-3 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-6624-3400-6 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1

The Bodyguard

Chapter 2

Sunset Plaza Drive

Chapter 3

Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll

Chapter 4

Hollywoodland

Chapter 5

The Favor

Chapter 6

Nichols Canyon

Chapter 7

The Casting Couch

Chapter 8

The Limo

Chapter 9

The Dear Doctor

Chapter 10

Double-Edged Sword

Chapter 11

Can You Spell Quaalude?

Chapter 12

Confused in Hollywood

Chapter 13

Hedonism

Chapter 14

The Mansions

Chapter 15

It's Not Who You Know

Chapter 16

Hollywood Porn

Chapter 17

What the Fuck

Chapter 18

Game of Manipulation

Chapter 19

Self-Indulgence Makes the World Go Round

Chapter 20

Rat Pack or Just Rats?

Chapter 21

What Happens in Hollywood Doesn't Stay in Hollywood

Chapter 22

Love Me Two Times

Chapter 23

Roses Are Red, and I Will Not Wed

Chapter 24

Gentlemen Don't Tell

Chapter 25

Short-Term Memory

Chapter 26

If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them

Chapter 27

Don't You DARE

Chapter 28

If It Bleeds, It Reads

Chapter 29

Superpowers

Chapter 30

The Last Dance

Chapter 31

The Eye-Opening

About the Author

While the whole world is mad, I want to watch through rose-colored glasses…

—The Doctor

Prologue

These are true stories of a bodyguard and limo driver working during the height of male chauvinism in the historic 1980s. These stories recall various escapades and sex scandals that have gone unsurfaced for nearly thirty-five years and cast light upon the exploitation and subculture in the film industry at the time. As a young bodyguard and limousine driver, these surreal firsthand encounters were simply viewed as executing a job. Despite the context and graphic recollection of these stories, in no way is the behavior or conversations in this book condoned. Out of respect for the dead, some of the names mentioned in this book have been changed or unspecified.

The era during the rise of Blockbuster, MTV, and New Wave music has changed our lives forever. The Cold War had just ended, and personal computers were just starting to become available. While Ronald Reagan was president, we witnessed increasing usage of technology and changes in culture. It was an amazing time in history that is remembered for its extreme party lifestyle and participation with sex and drugs.

Roger recalls his assignments and life surrounding Hollywood during the historic 1980s. His personal relationships with clients, and his interactions with wishful young actresses, presented him with a medium into the party scene…and what was truly going on with this sexually charged era. Throughout these stories, Roger dives headfirst into exploring the Hollywood scene and the mindsets involved during the peak of the casting couch, favor making, and drug usage.

To further help portray each chapter's significance, a song that sets the mood in the eighties and its artist are stated at the beginning of each chapter.

Chapter 1

The Bodyguard

The sex-and-drug culture was everywhere in the 1960s, from San Francisco to New York City. The free love movement, Vietnam, and the drug culture was the era I was born into. The clashes between the hippies and the conservatives were in the news all the time. Plays and movies began pushing the moralities of the conservative era ever since the late fifties and early sixties. Even Breakfast at Tiffany's was about a writer having an affair with a married woman, and it involved a young country girl using her looks to make her way into the big city. It is one of my favorite movies, but little did I know how relevant it would become.

By the time the early eighties began, the rich and famous would dress provocatively, and everyone had become involved with the new way of partying. There was an aggressive permutation developing among men to have the ultimate sex with the most beautiful women by using power and influence to get into their pants. This manipulating tactic dates back to ancient times, but it became especially prevalent during the eighties.

By 1984, I was reintroduced to the Doctor that had delivered me as a baby in 1960. The dear Doctor was a good friend of my family and was my mother's gynecologist from the late fifties to the early sixties, until she moved to Orange County. We were invited to the Doctor's son's wedding in Los Angeles, California. Here I was at a true Hollywood wedding with a very cool crowd of people. The Doctor's girlfriend was approximately twenty years younger than him, and her friends were even younger. As a young twenty-four-year-old, I was impressed with the Doctor and looked up to him as a role model. I had just finished bodyguard school, and I was training for high-risk assignments. While I was not former military or law enforcement, domestic bodyguarding for Hollywood's wealthy paid well. With a newly received gun permit and a black belt in karate, I believed I was ready to take up the task of becoming a bodyguard.

The dear Doctor finally mentioned to me that I should come in to his office one day in the future and discuss my career path. He took a liking toward me from the relationship with my parents, and the fact that he delivered me, I was malleable and ripe to be molded by him. He needed a driver and someone he could rely on for various assignments. He preferred to have someone that he could trust and someone that didn't want to make it big in the movies. Only later did I realize that my duties would become the center of the Hollywood scene, intertwined with over-the-top parties and young girls trying to become actresses.

I showed up to the Doctor's office on a Saturday, and his girlfriend was there: a tall, amazing blond woman. But she was not the usual bimbo girlfriend. She was educated and had an MBA from USC. She traveled the world with the Doctor and ran the real estate side of his large holdings. She was really cool, a beautiful lover and companion. The Doctor offered to pay me to teach her and her best friend self-defense once a week for six months. Aside from the self-defense lessons, I began to drive and do odd jobs for the Doctor. He had taken me under his wing, and in return, I became a loyal and devoted bodyguard for him.

Roger in bodyguard training for the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Chapter 2

Sunset Plaza Drive

I moved to a home on Sunset Plaza Drive, where the Doctor and his Producer friend owned a high-end, three-story home. The top level was a master bedroom, where the Doctor or Producer's trophy girlfriend stayed. The middle level was where I lived, commonly used for cooking and entertaining. The lower level had three bedrooms, a large bathroom, and a small den. This lower level was commonly used for three up-and-coming actresses that dated the Producer's friends, business connections, and actors. They were allowed to have